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PUDA demolishes 45 hutments
SAS Nagar, May 28
In a major anti-encroachment operation, a team of the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority today demolished over 45 unauthorised hutments in Phase I here. Some of these structures were over 25 years’ old.
A JCB razes illegal structures to the ground in Phase I, SAS Nagar, on Wednesday.
— A Tribune photograph
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MC wants cost of plot written off
SAS Nagar, May 28
The municipal council here has appealed to the Punjab Minister for Local Government to either get the cost of the Rs 2-crore plot allotted by the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority
to the council for building its office here written off or ask PUDA to charge only the amount at which the land had been originally purchased by it.
Slum women exposed to AIDS risk
Pushed into trade by fathers, husbands
Chandigarh, May 28
With the threat of AIDS looming large, a burgeoning population of commercial sex workers and intravenous drug users in most of the slum and labour colonies mushrooming in the city, has the health authorities and voluntary organisations worrying.
Child beating case: mother
to move court
SAS Nagar, May 28
Balwinder Kaur, mother of the seven-year-old
Gurpavresh, who was allegedly beaten up by the Principal of the Police Public School in the Commando Complex Phase XI last week, today stated that she would be approaching the Kharar courts to get a case registered against the principal of the school under Section 323 of the IPC (harassment).
Passport
office staff to go on strike
Chandigarh, May 28
Fed up with carrying on a nearly four-year-long productive agitation,
popular in Japan, the All-India Passport Employees Association has
threatened to go on an indefinite strike from June 2.
Stamp to commemorate conquest of Everest
Chandigarh, May 28
To commemorate the golden jubilee of the conquest of the Mount Everest, the Department of Post will issue a postage stamp tomorrow of the denomination of Rs 15. The stamp will be available at Philatelic Bureau, Chandigarh GPO.
READERS WRITE
A commission on Chandigarh
IT is not easy to forget that Chandigarh was not built on a rugged, arid or unproductive land. Scores of villages were bulldozed for this new city to come up. To this day a good number of displaced villagers of the area are both emotionally and economically unsettled.
EATING OUT
Get together at Getto.... |
Chandigarh, May 28
Getto... the get-together joint. This is the renovated restaurant of Heritage Hotel in the Sector 35 lane of eateries. The new-look with clouds as the theme of the decor has the features that should attract the Chandigarhians, specially the youngsters, on the lookout for a chic hanging out place south of the Madhya Marg.
The tables are full at Getto...., Sector 35, Chandigarh.
— Photo Pawan Sharma |
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One phone number to
register power complaints
SAS Nagar, May 28
With a view to end one of the perpetual grievances of the residents of the township, the Punjab State Electricity Board's local office here has decided to launch a single telephone complaint number manned round-the-clock during the coming fortnight.
“No FIR...”
Kanwar Ashwani Kumar, an advocate of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and counsel for Mr Mann Singh, in a communication to The Tribune has stated: “Apropos of the news report entitled
‘No FIR in NRI assault case yet’ published on May 25, 2003, on page 5 in Chandigarh Tribune, it is stated that the news report is wrong, baseless and devoid of all facts.
A ray of hope for physically challenged
Chandigarh, May 28
After 18 years, polio victim of Nardu village in Patiala district, can finally walk to her school every morning. Reena Rani is now self-dependent because of the crutches and callipers provided to her.
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Chandigarh, May 28
